Hello scrible users! If you’ve done some annotating lately, you’ve likely come across a new feature – the Context Menu. Before, if you hovered over an annotation, a red X would show up at the top left corner of the annotation so that you could delete that annotation.

Now, there will be an icon representing the current annotation instead of the red X. So for a yellow highlight, it will look like this:

Clicking this icon will reveal our new feature, the Context Menu. This Menu is where you’ll now find the delete option, as well as other useful features. For instance, you can now change the color of a highlight, note, or text-color annotation from this menu. Or, if you want to add some additional info, you can anchor a new note to the annotation.

As we continue to add features to scrible, this Menu will give you a quick and convenient way to interact with your annotations and get the most out of your curated content. If you haven’t checked this feature out yet, go give it a whirl! If you’ve already played with it, we would love to hear your feedback so we can continue to improve way the world interacts with the web.

We’ve enhanced our search capabilities to help you find what you’re looking for quicker than ever. Here’s a breakdown of all the advanced features you can take advantage of:

? – Single character wild card
Using a question mark will match any single character at that position. For example, searching with “te?t” would match the words text, test and tent in any pages you’ve saved.

* – Multiple character wild card
Using an asterisk will match 0 or more characters at that position. For example, “test*” would match the words test, tests, testing and testers.

“word1 word2″~# – Proximity search
Ending a two term quoted phrase with a tilde and a number will find those two words within the given distance of each other. If you were looking for pages about Amazon’s Kindle, you could use “amazon kindle”~5 to find pages where amazon and kindle are within 5 words of one another. This way you would find an article with Amazon’s tablet, the Kindle, but not an article with how to kindle a fire in the great jungle known as the Amazon.

^# – Raising term priority
Using the caret character followed by a number will give a word a higher priority in the search. If you want to bring up all your saved pages about books, but want to focus on the sci-fi ones, you could use a search like “books sci-fi^5” to give 5 times greater weight to sci-fi. The default weight is 1. So, anything above that will add weight to the importance of a word.

AND – Including both terms
Use “AND” when you want to ensure search results have both terms you’ve used. For instance, searching for “hotel AND 5-star” would only bring back pages that have the words hotel and 5-star in them; one or the other isn’t good enough.

OR – Including either term Use OR to broaden a search between terms. If you were looking at pets, a search for ” “corgi OR husky” puppy” would bring back results that mention corgi puppy or husky puppy, or both corgi puppy and husky puppy.

+ – Requiring a term
Begin a word with a plus to make it required in the results. All the results for a search of “tesla +roadster” would mention roadster, but not necessarily tesla. This would exclude any articles about Nikola Tesla (unless he happened to drive a roadster) while returning pages about roadsters, particularly the Tesla Roadster.

( ) – Grouping terms
If your queries are getting complicated, you can group terms together with parentheses to make it clear which terms are getting paired. Revisiting the earlier pet example from above, the search could have also been written as “(corgi OR husky) puppy” and it would have returned the same results.

– Escaping characters
What if you want to look for your favorite Atari game, Q*bert? Earlier, we said the asterisk character acts as a multi-character wildcard. So, searching with “Q*bert” would potentially match all kinds of crazy words. You’ll need to do what’s called “escaping” the asterisk with a backslash. If you want an asterisk to just be an asterisk, put a backslash in front of it. So, to search for Q*bert, you would enter “Q*bert” into the search box. The same goes for the question mark (?), tilde (~), caret (^), parentheses((, )), or plus sign (+) when you don’t want to activate any special search behavior.

That’s the quick overview of the search syntax. If you want a technical explanation of what’s going on behind the scenes you can check out the documentation for our search engine here.

We’ve created a granular settings page so that you can manage your e-mail preferences and only get the notices that you want. You can access the new page from the Settings Page by clicking the “Manage e-mail preferences” link.

You’ll then be brought to the E-mail Settings Page, where you’ll be presented with your options for e-mail notifications. This way, you can opt in and out of the different types of e-mails so that you only get information you care about.

Here’s a breakdown of the categories:

User Notifications: These are the e-mails sent because of another user’s actions, such as sharing a page with you.

Critical Updates: Any important information about scrible would be sent out as a Critical Update email. This includes things like service downtime and changes or major updates.

Product Announcements: Information regarding updates, upgrades and new features introduced to scrible.

Marketing Announcements: News about scrible, such as partnering with another product or awards and press mentions we’ve earned. Also, news aboutevents we host or attend as well as special offers provided directly by us.

Partner News: News and offers about and from any partners that we work with.